Practice

Civil Law

What we do:

  • We enable clients to resolve legal disputes by representing either the plaintiff or the defendant, in a cost and time-efficient manner.
  • We provide effective strategies throughout the preservative measures, settlement negotiations, litigations in each instance, and compulsory execution. We can represent various types of litigations, issues related to monetary claims, real estate, commercial transactions, constructions, labor laws, family laws, finance, international matters, etc.

Brief Overview of
Korean
Civil Litigation

Trial Stage (Lawsuit on Merits)

3 Instances

Each appeal Shall be made within 14 days from the date the losing party receives the judgement.
Timetable After the defendant receives the complaint, the defendant is required to file a written
answer within 30 days. The court hearings usually hold more than two times, at three or four-week intervals.
Each instance normally takes 6 months to 1 year. The case in supreme courts may take shorter or longer depending on the complexity of legal issues.
Settlement Settlement in court proceedings is possible in 1st and 2nd instances. A judge or a conciliation committee may advise the parties to make mutual concessions and renders a written ruling reflecting compromised solution. However, if either party raises an objection against the ruling within two weeks from the receipt of the written ruling, litigation shall take effect as they are.
Costs The winning party may claim the costs spent for the lawsuit against the losing party after the civil lawsuit is concluded. The costs include stamp duty, postage fees, lawyer fees, etc. The lawyer fees that can be claimed follow the calculation formula under the laws, which is dependent on the claim amount of the lawsuit.

Pre-trial stage (Preservative Measures)

  • Provisional Attachment : to preserve compulsory execution against the movables or immovables in respect of a monetary claim or a claim convertible into the money.
  • Provisional Disposition : to fix a temporary position against the disputed relation of right or to preserve the execution in regard to the claim for delivery of specific immovable or movable property.

Post-trial stage (Compulsory execution)

  • Compulsory execution against movables, immovables
  • Request for Specification of Property, Inquiry about Property through the court
  • Objections against Execution Clause, etc.